• #21: Steph Guthrie - Filmmaker and advocate on standing up to online harassment
    Jun 10 2019

    Filmmaker and grassroots educator Steph Guthrie joins Mark to talk about her experiences as a feminist advocate who has faced online harassment from the far right and her work with films like the award-winning documentary A Better Man. She discusses what she's learned from legal battles, social media conflicts, and working with men trying to atone for domestic violence.

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    52 mins
  • #11: Neil Pasricha - Best-selling author on how to practice happiness
    Apr 1 2019

    Neil Pasricha, author of wildly successful The Book of Awesome series and "The Happiness Equation" joins Mark to talk about the various ways we can practice happiness every day, find joy in the little things, and how writing a blog on 1000 Awesome Things began his journey from a desk-job at Walmart to an internationally known speaker and author.

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    48 mins
  • #41: Seamus O'Regan - Canadian politician on opening up about his alcoholism
    Oct 21 2019

    Mark sits down with Seamus O'Regan, the Minister of Indigenous Services for the Liberal government of Canada. They discuss how Seamus got started in politics and what it was like to share the truth about his alcoholism with his workplace and the support he received from fellow MPs and the Prime Minister himself.

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    31 mins
  • A Little Normal: an SCN short - November 3
    Nov 3 2020

    The final installment of the So-Called Normal limited series on treatment resistant depression will continue next week. Mark will speak with Jenn about her complex pathway and recovery from long-term depression. This week, Mark and Dave chat about anxiety, honouring kids' emotions, the role that families play in recovery, and how the medical system handles individual people.

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    15 mins
  • Bell Let's Talk Special Part 2: How a stranger saved Mark's life
    Jan 29 2020

    In part two of our Bell Let's Talk series, Mark sits down with Mike Richey, the man who saved his life when he was 15 years old, and finds out how he came to be at that bridge that night, and why he decided to help.

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    40 mins
  • Bell Let's Talk Special Part 1: Mark's long night on the bridge
    Jan 28 2020

    In this first part of Mark's special 4-part series in honour of Bell Let's Talk Day (January 29), Mark finally tells his own story on the podcast. When Mark was 15 years old, he tried to take his own life, and was saved by a stranger. Now Mark sits down with that stranger to tell both sides of the story that bound them together forever. Stay tuned for Part 2 tomorrow morning on Bell Let's Talk day.

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    17 mins
  • #55: Bif Naked - Legendary Canadian singer on her rock star life
    Jan 6 2020

    Mark is joined by Bif Naked, iconic Canadian singer-songwriter, speaker, and author. They discuss what it was like to be a female rock artist in the 1990s, her philosophy on life, and how she got through breast cancer.

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    56 mins
  • #37: Sharon Hampson and Randi Hampson - "Sharon, Lois, and Bram" star on impacting kids worldwide
    Sep 30 2019

    Mark chats with legendary Canadian children's entertainer Sharon Hampson of 'Sharon, Lois and Bram' fame, along with her daughter and now manager of 'Sharon and Bram', Randi Hampson. They discuss Sharon, Lois and Bram's philosophy of respecting and challenging kids with their music and TV programming, and share stories of meeting the children (and adults) who were shaped by their work. Sharon also opens up about her battle with breast cancer and what it was like to make music and live life with Lois Lilienstein, who passed away in 2015.

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    52 mins